Spanish Golden Age Texts in the Twenty-First Century Teaching the Old Through the New

«Spanish Golden Age texts rank among the finest achievements of European literature. This volume will succeed in introducing students to the glories of a wonderful tradition. The contributors deserve congratulations for highlighting the contemporary relevance as well as the originality of enthralling, timeless poetry, prose and drama.» (Peter William Evans , Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London)

«Thoughtful, practical and inspirational, these essays reveal bright perspectives for the MFL classroom in times of change and challenge and new angles for scholarship in Spanish Studies. The power of the stories, images, plots and poems of the Golden Age get connected here to an engine of insight on cultural value, reinterpretation, youth audiences, posterity and educational priorities.» (Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester)

Idoya Puig is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University. She holds a PhD in Cervantes and the Novelas ejemplares from Westfield College, University of London. She has published a number of articles on Cervantes and sixteenth-century Spanish culture and society and is editor of Tradition and Modernity: Cervantes’s Presence in Spanish Contemporary Literature (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009). She is currently exploring ways to harness new media to teach literary classics and to bring literature back into the language class successfully.
Karl McLaughlin is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Translation and Interpreting at Manchester Metropolitan University. He holds a PhD in Golden Age literature and is the co-author of a modern edition of the poetry of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán (1618–c.1684). He has also published various recent articles on the work of this little-known author from Extremadura.